Friday, April 10, 2009

The following is an attempted index of the available volumes of Migne's massive Latin patrology series that are freely available for download. Most of the volumes are available at Google books, but I was (as of 10 April 2009) unable to locate any copies of around 15 percent of the volumes (UPDATE: October 9, 2010, the number of missing tomes is down to about two, thanks to improvement at Google and the assistance of a kind reader).

Within Google Books, I found two main indices for the Latin patrology series. The first index (link) has around 310 full view tomes and around 460 tomes total, whereas the second index (link) has around 330 full view tomes and around 540 total tomes. I believe there is significant overlap between these indices.

One thing I'd like to do enhance this list at some point is to identify the authors that go with each volume. In the meantime there are helpful lists available at other sites, such as this one (link) and this very detailed list (link). The second link is to a website where many of the volumes may be found, either in whole or in part, as images, transcriptions, and translations, if one digs enough.

I have included links to Archive.org where Archive.org has separately scanned the volumes. This is only a very small number of cases, as apparently Archive.org has been content with providing a sort of hijacked (though that sounds pejorative) version of Google's own scans, with attribution.

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